Bbc Programme Questions Whether Hamas Massacre Took Place

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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/bbc-programme-questions-whether-hamas-203328723.html

Biased broadcastin organisation

The bbc can't even call Hamas terrorists.

[Old_Geezer]

If they don't wish to I can't see they should be forced to.

They can question what they want as long as they come to the correct conclusion.

[ToraToraTora]

Perlease!

[ichkeria]

There were plainly rogue operators at BBC Arabic. As the report points out, the BBC reviewed the report and removed it. Not a good look I agree but action was taken  

[perseverer]

Yes, but answerbank likes to knock the BBC.

[royfromaus]

And even when the BBC are wrong ^ you still get upset...why?

[tomus42]

Same reason you get upset when they get it right probably.

[royfromaus]

What?

[tomus42]

You get upset when the BBC reports things you don't agree with Roy.

[royfromaus]

Show me what you are referring to.

 

 

[tomus42]

Yes, I'm going to spend time searching through your old posts rather than going to bed. Pmsl.

[royfromaus]

So you're just making *** up?

[10ClarionSt]

Some people also believe that OBL wasn't killed by a U.S. Navy Seal Team. It was just a film! 

[Redhelen72]

It seems that they are not the only ones questioning.

I understand that some major newspapers have withdrawn the story whilst waiting for non biased evidence

[Peter Pedant]

Yes, I'm going to spend time searching through your old posts rather than going to bed. Pmsl.

yes Mamalynne told me it was Not Done to trawl thro someone's posts to select the plank of the week or the stupidest of the clutch for that week, ....as an unwritten AB rule

Amen, so be it etc

[Peter Pedant]

Yes, but answerbank likes to knock the BBC.

yes there were "incubation units" in the al-ahli hospital. I thought the Beeb fluffy meant neonatal intensive care, babies on ventilators ( no NOT life support machines)

and if she hasnt been around a hospital recently, how can you believe them over economic policy?

( advice to junior paeds: if you dont know about milk feeds, the mothers will never believe you)

[andy-hughes]

The difficulty for any and all news organisations covering the horrific events in Gaza, is find accurate information.

Both sides have a considerable advantage, and long history, in colourful but not necessarily accurate reports of attrocities committed by the other side.

This propaganda war is every bit as fiercely fought as the physical combat - both sides keen to present themselves to the wider world as the noble victims of the other.

That means that accurate reporting from any source other than actual physical sight, is frought with difficulty, and the BBC, like any reputable news body, must be scrupulous in its reporting, and remove any information that it cannot reasonably believe to be be true.

That applies to any news media, and the BBC should not be accused of bias for its actions on this occasion.

As for its refusal to refer to Hamas as 'terrorists', the BBC argues that impartiality prevents it from using a specific adjective, with added connotations, and is currently maintaining its position of referring to Hamas as 'insurgents' which, the BBC believes, accurately describes its current status.

[brainiac]

I've noticed that now in most of its broadcasts, the BBC gets round not calling Hamas 'terrorists' by saying that 'the UK Government has designated Hamas a terrorist organization.'

[royfromaus]

Many answerbankers have repeatedly said the BBC is slower with the news because it fact checks before running the story.

 

Pretty quick off the mark with the hospital bombing story.

What happend there then?

[andy-hughes]

royfromus - //

Many answerbankers have repeatedly said the BBC is slower with the news because it fact checks before running the story.

 

Pretty quick off the mark with the hospital bombing story.

What happend there then? //

I don't imagine any news media in the area have any problem with reporting what they can see in front of the, hence the immediate reaction.

However, accurately attributing causes of such atrocities can take time, and that's where the delays are.

[Khandro]

If it's all false information, Israel appears to have many superb actors posing as mothers, fathers, sisters & brothers of the dead, missing & those purported to have been taken as hostages.